Annual Reunion

Annual Reunion

Author: United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates

Publisher:

Published: 1870

Total Pages: 718

ISBN-13:

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The Indiana Jackass Regiment in the Civil War

The Indiana Jackass Regiment in the Civil War

Author: Phillip E. Faller

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-01-22

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0786470461

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This book contains never before published information, including artillery firing tables, for an Indiana infantry regiment converted to heavy artillery. It concentrates upon these Hoosiers' three-and-a-half years of duty in the Trans-Mississippi Theater and Gulf states during the Civil War, often as a separate command. They acted as infantry, cavalry and light artillery (with captured cannons) before being converted to heavy artillery in 1863. Their cannons and artillery equipment were hauled by hundreds of mules. The regiment participated in the taking of New Orleans, securing an important rail link to Morgan City, Louisiana, the Teche Campaign, the siege and reduction of Port Hudson, the Red River Campaign, and sieges and reductions of Fort Gaines, Fort Morgan, Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, Alabama.